The strait gate, or, Great difficulty of going to Heaven plainly proving

First, there is sin, the sin of the profane, and the sin of the professor.

1. The sin of the profane, but this needs not be enlarged upon, because it is concluded upon, at all hands, where there is the common belief of the being of God, and the judgment to come, that the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God: Psal. 9 17.

1. The sin of the profane, but this needs not be inlarged upon, because it is concluded upon, at all hands, where there is the common belief of the being of God, and the judgment to come, that the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God: Psal. 9 17.

2. But there is the sin of professors, or take it rather thus, there is a profession that will stand with an unsanctified heart and life, the sin of such will overpoise the salvation of their souls, the sin-end being the heaviest end of the scale: I say, that being the heaviest end which hath sin in it; they tilt over; and so are, notwithstanding their glorious profession, drowned in perdition and destruction: for none such hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God, therefore let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things, comes the wrath of God upon the children of ⟨p. 21⟩disobedience; neither will a profession be able to excuse them, Ephes. 5. 3. 4. 5. 6. The gate will be too strait for such as these to enter in thereat. A man may partake of salvation in part, but not of salvation in whole: God saved the children of Israel out of Egypt, but overthrew them in the wilderness: I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them that believed not: so we see, (that notwithstanding their beginning) they could not enter in, because of unbelief, Jud. 5.